CLEVELAND — LeBron James was good, historically good in the NBA Finals. But after his Cavs were eliminated by the Warriors, he admitted he would rather his team had been lucky — and healthy — than good.

James, who averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists in the Finals to become the first player in NBA history to average at least 35 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in the championship round, admitted the Cavs were playing against a stacked deck facing the Warriors. He referenced the injuries that crippled Cleveland; during the playoffs, the Cavs lost Kevin Love (first round) and then Kyrie Irving.

“You lose Kevin, an All-Star, lose Kyrie, another All-Star,” James said. “Try as much as we could to make up, we had a lot of talent sitting in suits. I’ve had a lot of playoff runs on both ends and know one thing, you’ve got to be healthy, you’ve got to be playing right at the right time. We had no luck. We were not healthy.”

And so James suffered his fourth Finals defeat — two in Cleveland, two in Miami against two titles.

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“All four of them are disappointing,” James said.

“There’s not much you can say, really. I mean, all you can do is try to pick yourself up when that time [comes]. Just try to be successful. Whatever I do, I give everything to my teammates. When you fall short, it hurts me. I wish I could do better, do more to help us get over the hump. It just wasn’t our time.”

In the end, the Warriors were a far more complete team. James was left with not enough help. As he pointed out, “we had 14 assists, I had nine of them.”

But James, who proclaimed himself the best player in the world to no debate after Game 6, kept fighting. He refused to give up and only threw in the towel “when the [clock] numbers went zero and we lost.

“That’s when I doubted. That’s when it was,” James said.

James finished with 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists Tuesday. Like his series, it wasn’t enough.

“We were undermanned,” he said. “I don’t know any other team … — I’ve been watching basketball for a long time, I’m a historian of the game — I can’t remember a team that got to the Finals losing two All-Stars. … This round, throughout the playoffs, you’ve got to have all the playmakers, got to be healthy to win it. And we just weren’t.”